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| Afghanistan |
| Taliban Pays Its Troops Better Than Karzai Pays His |
| 2010-07-27 |
| Are the Taliban shelling out more money for their fighters than the U.S. and the international community are for Afghan security forces? The American military says no, and e-mails the chart below to make its case. But itÂ’s not the most persuasive document. And itÂ’s undermined by one of the reports in WikiLeaksÂ’ trove of war logs. |
| Posted by:tipper |
| #5 US aid to Pakistan has freed up funds the ISI uses to pay the Taliban cannon fodder. |
| Posted by: john frum 2010-07-27 17:47 |
| #4 There's big money in those poppies... |
| Posted by: tu3031 2010-07-27 17:36 |
| #3 It doesn't have to come from aid. We have a 40 billion dollar trade deficit _per month_. |
| Posted by: Thing From Snowy Mountain 2010-07-27 16:04 |
| #2 How much of the taliban funds comes from US aid? |
| Posted by: Paul D 2010-07-27 16:02 |
| #1 Of course the Taliban have more money. We have adopted policies that send them more money every time we put gasoline in our cars, and live with a permanent argument over whether to even have a domestic oil and gas industry any more. |
| Posted by: Thing From Snowy Mountain 2010-07-27 15:56 |